"The Conservative Party has attempted to erase a 10-year backlog of
speeches from the internet, including pledges for a new kind of
transparent politics the prime minister and chancellor made when they
were campaigning for election.

Prime minister David Cameron and
chancellor George Osborne campaigned on a promise to democratise
information held by those in power, so people could hold them to
account. They wanted to use the internet transform politics.

But
the Conservative Party has removed the archive from its public facing
website, erasing records of speeches and press releases going back to
the year 2000 and up until it was elected in May 2010.

It also
struck the record of their past speeches off internet engines including
Google, which had been a role model for Cameron and Osborne's "open
source politics".

And it erased the official record of their speeches from the Internet Archive, the public record of the net."

In one massively misjudged move, the Tory party has focused everyone's attention on its past rather on the country's present/future. How can that possibly benefit the Tories?